Kathy Lee-Gifford: Obama Needs to Listen to Middle America
Gone Too Far
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Kathy Lee Gifford isn�t so impressed with how he�s performed in
the top job so far.
"I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
Dano
Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
Alex DeLarge
> Gone Too Far wrote:
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>
>> the top job so far.
>>
>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>
> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>
>
Justice
> Gone Too Far wrote:
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>
>> the top job so far.
>>
>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>
> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>
s why he is failing and on a fast down hill slide. The first and last
Negro President.
ChairMan
Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us <NOT>
Dano
> Dano wrote:
>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>
>>> the top job so far.
>>>
>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>
>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>>
>>
> Who gives a flying fuck what you have to say?
You know what? Just about exactly as many that give a rat's ass about your
opinion. So touche...fuck you...and ker-PLONK to you too! See ya.
Dano
I don't much give a shit what pea brain, shit stained dumbasses like you say
either. Deal with it redneck.
Kathy
This is just killing you racists, isn't it.
Kathy
Kathy
> In news:ha5utg$n7k$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
> Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>
>>> the top job so far.
>>>
>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>
> See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
> Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us <NOT>
>
>
But the majority of us 'people' voted for Obama. How do you get around that?
Kathy
Dano
> ChairMan wrote:
>> In news:ha5utg$n7k$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
>> Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
>>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>>
>>>> the top job so far.
>>>>
>>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>>
>> See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
>> Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us
>> <NOT>
>
> But the majority of us 'people' voted for Obama. How do you get
> around that?
He hasn't really thought this through obviously.
Alex DeLarge
> Alex DeLarge wrote:
>> Dano wrote:
>>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>>
>>>> the top job so far.
>>>>
>>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>>>
>>>
>> Who gives a flying fuck what you have to say?
>
> You know what? Just about exactly as many that give a rat's ass about your
> opinion. So touche...fuck you...and ker-PLONK to you too! See ya.
>
>
Don't let the barn door hit your ass on the way out, brayer.
Alex DeLarge
> ChairMan wrote:
>> In news:ha5utg$n7k$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
>> Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
>>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>>
>>>> the top job so far.
>>>>
>>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>> See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
>> Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us
>> <NOT>
>
> I don't much give a shit what pea brain, shit stained dumbasses like you say
> either. Deal with it redneck.
>
>
Alex DeLarge
Simple knee jerk, predictable and just as likely to rebound the opposite
way.
Alex DeLarge
> Kathy wrote:
>> ChairMan wrote:
>>> In news:ha5utg$n7k$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
>>> Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
>>>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>>>
>>>>> the top job so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>>> See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
>>> Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us
>>> <NOT>
>> But the majority of us 'people' voted for Obama. How do you get
>> around that?
>
> He hasn't really thought this through obviously.
>
>
Just as likely to go back the other way.
Justice
It's killing everybody. The jobs are going, the economy is going, the
value of the dollar is going, real estate is going, our defense system
is going, and America's standing in the world is going.
Foreign diplomates refuse to shake obama's hand (see Youtube)and now
Europe, Asia and South America has bitch slapped him in front of the
whole world in Denmark. Do you think it is racist to say that he is the
last Negro President?
Justice
It won't happen again, unless you "people" are as stupid as the racists
claim. Anytime a Democracy allows parasites of the nation to vote, they
will vote Socialist.
Justice
> Kathy wrote:
>> ChairMan wrote:
>>> In news:ha5utg$n7k$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
>>> Dano <janea...@yahoo.com>spewed forth:
>>>> Gone Too Far wrote:
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558420,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:
>>>>> s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b28075990:z0
>>>>>
>>>>> the top job so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I would like to see him listen more to Middle America. They're
>>>>> trying to have their voice heard but they're being dismissed as
>>>>> a mob or Astroturf or different things. I have quite a few
>>>>> friends who are in those tea parties and it is not people who
>>>>> are Republican or Democrat, they're Americans who are deeply
>>>>> concerned about how much in debt we are going to be as a
>>>>> nation," Gifford told Tarts. "I would love to hear him listen to
>>>>> them more. It is a huge issue and I don't want to ruin (my
>>>>> daughter's) future because she's going to be saddled with my
>>>>> bills. That's a bipartisan thing. The Democrats don't do it and
>>>>> the republicans don't do it. We need to go back to the old
>>>>> fashioned way of you pay for it as you go along."
>>>> Who cares what Kathy Lee has to say?
>>> See,that's what your problem and evidently bammys. too.
>>> Ya'll don't care what "people" say, ya'll know what's best for us
>>> <NOT>
>> But the majority of us 'people' voted for Obama. How do you get
>> around that?
>
> He hasn't really thought this through obviously.
>
>
be dumb enough to do it again. You'll probably be living out of a
shopping cart and will not vote.
C. Balance
kATHY NEEDS to build her self a hut out in her back yard and go sit
in it. I'm tired of looking at and listening to old decades past
menopause Women with all sorts of fake this and fake that, plastic
surgery and what not. Your time is past! Act like it.
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... in Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black
kids cheering, "Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on," and, of
course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a
racist, he's white. Newsweek magazine told us this. We know that white
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Ever the statesman, and often candid to a political fault, former
President Jimmy Carter said recently that much of the animosity
directed toward President Barack Obama is "based on the fact that he
is a black man."
A lifelong Southerner, Carter acknowledged that the inclination of
racism still exists, and that "it has bubbled up to the surface
because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South
but around the country, that African Americans are not qualified to
lead this great country."
Though courageous, the former president's pronouncement will surely be
considered controversial to many Republicans and Democrats alike. Some
will view Carter's comments as politically inexpedient.
The topic of race in general, and charges of racism in particular, is
political dynamite that typically explodes in the hands of the accuser
-- just ask [Harvard] Professor Skip Gates, [New York] Gov. David
Paterson, or Obama (whom I will return to momentarily).
Unless someone is wearing a Klan hood while yelling, "Nigger, Go Back
to Africa," the charge of racism seems to offend the accused these
days more than the actual victims.
This is true, in part, due to the most prevalent view of the problem
of race and racism in this country. In the eyes of many, the
responsibility of moving beyond racial conflict in America is placed
at the feet of minority communities of color, as opposed to the
dominant society.
We've all heard it. America will move beyond race to a colorblind
society only when minority groups cease dwelling on difference. Such a
view permeates the melting pot ideal of American folklore, the myth of
meritocracy and even the "post-racial" dimension of electoral
politics.
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is disrupting the conspiracy of silence concerning racial injustice
that demands the allegiance of politicians on the national scene.
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